Golden, Colorado, USA, July 8, 2018 ─ CoorsTek, the world’s leading technical ceramics manufacturer, visits SEMICON West 2018 this week in San Francisco to showcase its semiconductor-grade components for fabrication, packaging, and electronics OEMs. Advanced ceramics, which outperform conventional polymers and metals, are some of the only materials which can endure the harsh demands of semiconductor processing’s aggressive combination of chemistries, temperatures, precision, and cleanliness.

“As the design and processing of semiconductor ICs continues to scale — in density, power, and performance — the impact of materials becomes even more critical,” explains Patty Mishic, Chief Commercial Officer at CoorsTek. “Our experts collaborate with leading semiconductor processing equipment companies around the world to engineer advanced ceramic components which help improve their yields, increase throughput, and enable smarter devices. It is an exciting place and time we are all in — artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, all kinds of new ways to make our world measurably better.”

CoorsTek ceramics are engineered to support virtually every step of the semiconductor manufacturing process, from wafer processing to device fabrication and packaging. The company will focus on some of its most advanced ceramic materials at SEMICON West 2018 including:

PureSiC™ – a family of 99.9995% pure silicon carbides specifically designed for extreme temperature and corrosion resistance, available in a range of high, medium, and low resistivity and transmissivity grades

Learn more by visiting CoorsTek in booth # 5848 (North Hall) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from July 10-12, 2018, or visit coorstek.com.

About CoorsTek

CoorsTek is a leading global supplier of technical ceramics designed to outperform conventional metals and polymers in critical-duty environments. With a portfolio of over 300 advanced ceramic formulations, innovative engineering expertise, and global manufacturing capabilities, CoorsTek partners with customers to solve technical challenges across virtually every technology and industry – including semiconductor & electronics, automotive, energy, aerospace and defense, and more. Together we make the world measurably better.

Golden, Colorado, USA, July 9, 2018 ─ CoorsTek, the world’s leading technical ceramics manufacturer, today announced that David Lee has joined the company as Vice President – Commercial for its global semiconductor business. Mr. Lee joins CoorsTek from Applied Materials where he served most recently as the Managing Director of Global Business Development for Service and Spares.

“David will help us build partnerships and strengthen our collaboration with customers worldwide,” said Patty Mishic, Chief Commercial Officer at CoorsTek. “Semiconductor processing equipment suppliers are challenged with scaling the density, power, and performance of ICs at a time when artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles, and the internet of things are driving exponential growth in data usage all around us,” she explains. “As experts in technical ceramics, CoorsTek partners with OEMs to engineer advanced components — helping them improve yields, increase throughput, and enable next-generation processes.”

After serving as an Aerospace Engineer and Captain in the United States Air Force, David joined Applied Materials in 1995 as a senior plasma etch engineer. Over the past two decades Mr. Lee has led a variety of semiconductor product, technology, and commercial teams.

Mr. Lee joins CoorsTek as it has been strengthening its advanced ceramic capabilities and growing its semiconductor business globally. In 2014, CoorsTek acquired Covalent Materials, formerly Toshiba Ceramics, including its R&D and operations in Japan. Then in 2016, the company added Philips Ceramics, with operations and development in Uden, The Netherlands.

Visit with David Lee and his colleagues at SEMICON West this week in San Francisco, booth # 5848 (North Hall), or find out more at coorstek.com.

About CoorsTek

CoorsTek is a leading global supplier of technical ceramics designed to outperform conventional metals and polymers in critical-duty environments. With a portfolio of over 300 advanced ceramic formulations, innovative engineering expertise, and global manufacturing capabilities, CoorsTek partners with customers to solve technical challenges across virtually every technology and industry – including semiconductor & electronics, automotive, energy, aerospace and defense, and more. Together we make the world measurably better.

ALD, ALE, 3D NAND, DRAM, and beyond - CoorsTek collaborates with OEM partners to help meet your toughest challenges. As the ceramic materials experts, CoorsTek works with you from concept through scalable production.